Transcript: Well, this goes back to 1861 to my great grandfather Moses Pearcey. He died in 1938, he was 77. His wife also, Naomi, was born in 1862 and she died in 1928 at 66... My grandfather Samuel who was born in 1891 and he died in 1954, at 63....

Transcript: I have this here [speaking of Twine Shop carving] just for sentimental reasons with his brother Robert, who could neither read nor write but he was an excellent carpenter who did all the carvings.

Transcript: Well, I grew up a boy in the fishery when Dad... and his brothers fished together from right up through, when I was big enough (8 or 9 years old) right up to when he died... couple years after that my uncle sold it all off and we gave...

Transcript: Well, my mother was involved in the drying. That was their job. The women had to spread the fish 'cause the men were off catching the fish in the cod traps, and bringing it in. But the women, they had to come down on a fine day and...

Transcript:There's pictures over there when Dad were on the flakes picking up the fish with my family and my mother, my sister and my cousins and their parents also. That was one of the one things you had to do here at the Battery.

Transcript: That was your livelihood then. That's what you did to make your living. But nowadays it's not. You're only out there for five fish a day. We used to bring in thirty thousand pound a fish a day, in one load.

Transcript: There's only about four or five original families out here now. I only got this for sentimental reasons. I'm retired ... I only just come out and spend a day out here and any body that comes in ... I say yes, you can come in and see the...